On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:00:09AM +0200, Eugene Roux wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:18 +0200, Eugene Roux wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 20:07 +0200, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> > > Eugene Roux wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 01:30 +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > > >>On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:15:09PM +0200, Eugéne Roux wrote:
> > > >>>On 24 Aug 2006, at 5:14 PM, Baltasar Cevc wrote:
> > > >>>>I'm not sure, but that may be a priviledge problem - try if it works
> > > >>>>when adding the appropirate capabilities if you haven't done so yet
> > > >>>>(I think it should be CAP_NET_ADMIN). However adding that capability
> > > >>>>is a security issue as the guest is allowed to change too many
> > > >>>>network settings then.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>I assumes so initially as well, but since I got little out of the
> > > >>>system, I decided to throw CAPS at it in the hope that I could tighten
> > > >>>up to the express limit it required once I got it working.
> > > >
> > > > <snip />
> > > >
> > > >>>Accessing these modems using "cu -l /dev/modem" works fine, but when I
> > > >>>try and bring up a PPP link I get the following:
> > > >>
> > > >>> root@vs01-vc01:/# /usr/sbin/pppd.org user root call FOOCHAT
> > > >>> chat: Aug 22 12:07:35 CONNECT 1800000
> > > >>> Serial connection established.
> > > >>> Using interface ppp0
> > > >>> Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
> > > >>> Could not determine remote IP address: defaulting to 10.64.64.64
> > > >>> ioctl(SIOCSIFDSTADDR): Cannot assign requested address(99)
> > > >>> Connection terminated.
> > > >>> Connect time 0.1 minutes.
> > > >>> Sent 126 bytes, received 150 bytes.
> > > >>> root@vs01-vc01:/#
> > > >>
> > > >>could you run that through strace -fF please and
> > > >>narrow the syscalls down to the relevant ones
> > > >>around the ioctl(SIOCSIFDSTADDR)?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 3840 fcntl64(6, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=1020, len=1}) = 0
> > > > 3840 fcntl64(6, F_SETLKW, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=1020, len=1}) = 0
> > > > 3840 fcntl64(6, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=1028, len=1}) = 0
> > > > 3840 fcntl64(6, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=1020, len=1}) = 0
> > > > 3840 fcntl64(6, F_SETLKW, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=1020, len=1}) = 0
> > > > 3840 fcntl64(6, F_SETLKW, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=1028, len=1}) = 0
> > > > 3840 ioctl(4, JFFS_PRINT_HASH or PPPIOCGFLAGS, 0xbfd30dd4) = 0
> > > > 3840 ioctl(4, PPPIOCSFLAGS, 0xbfd30dd4) = 0
> > > > 3840 ioctl(5, SIOCGIFCONF, {32, {{"eth0:vc01", {AF_INET, inet_addr("10.121.23.187")}}}}) = 0
> > > > 3840 ioctl(5, SIOCGIFFLAGS, {ifr_name="eth0:vc01", ifr_flags=IFF_UP|IFF_BROADCAST|IFF_RUNNING|IFF_MULTICAST}) = 0
> > > > 3840 ioctl(5, SIOCGIFNETMASK, {ifr_name="eth0:vc01", ifr_netmask={AF_INET, inet_addr("255.255.255.255")}}) = 0
> > > > 3840 ioctl(5, SIOCSIFADDR, 0xbfd30dac) = 0
> > > > 3840 ioctl(5, SIOCSIFDSTADDR, 0xbfd30dac) = -1 EADDRNOTAVAIL (Cannot assign requested address)
> > >
> > > Does your guest have the hide_netif flag set? Try
> > > echo "~hide_netif" >> /etc/vservers/<name>/flags
> > > and restart the guest, or alternatively, run
> > > vattribute --xid <name> --set --flag ~hide_netif
> > > for testing.
> >
> > Relief!
> >
> > That seems to have done the trick: we currently have two PPP links
> > going, one on each of the Virtual Servers. The links seem to establish
> > and then seems to run stably.
> >
> > We'll monitor it for 24 hours, dropping and re-establishing the links
> > and then go for broke: bring up a third Virtual Server and another PPP
> > link.
> >
> > Thanks for everyone helping so far, it is truly appreciated.
> >
> > Here's holding thumbs...
>
> Note to self: Don't count your chickens...
>
> I've managed to get both PPP links up, one in each Vserver. Problem is
> that they both try to change the default route for their server, and
> these routes filter through to the base machine and from there to the
> other Vserver.
>
> Is there a flag that will allow each Vserver to have its own routing
> table?
no, but you can use multiple routing tables to
set this up on the host system ...
best,
Herbert
> Regards,
> Eugéne
>
> --
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